The demise of the Regency has left a hole that some authors have attempted to fill. One of these is Mary Blayney and, though I have great hopes for her, I think I’ll have to wait for the next book before shouting Hallelujah to the skies. The Duke of Meryon has been widowed for a…
Sleepless in Scotland features a wonderfully likeable heroine, who ends up married to a hero who has got to be one of the most clueless males on the face of the earth. He is a textbook image of the hero who is Too Stupid To Realize what a wonderful wife he has. Thankfully, she is…
Tamed By a Laird was the most difficult book to get through in recent memory. Not because there was anything tremendously wrong with it, nothing that so offended me as a reader that this review is written with outrage. Actually, those books are often easier to get through than this book, which was just boring….
Pirate romances seem to be a love ’em or hate ’em type of book. I’ve enjoyed a number of the pirate books of recent years, and when I saw The Infamous Rogue on our review list, I eagerly snatched it up. However, the author takes a rather implausible situation and then compounds the problem by…
When was the last time you read a romance set in the earliest days of the Jazz Age? Whistling in the Dark not only features an unusual setting but two heroes who face ordinary struggles such as keeping a family business afloat. I also loved the insight into the earliest days of radio, before the…
Where the Wind Blows is a pleasant Western romance and reading it was a nice change of pace from all the paranormals out there. I used to love Western romances (Maggie Osborne, I really miss you), and it’s been a long time since I’ve read a really good one. While I can’t say this was…
Judith James’ debut novel, Broken Wing, easily ranks as one of my top three books of the past year. Therefore, I really wanted – more like badly wanted – to love Highland Rebel. Call it a case of high expectations but I expected, well…more, much more. The book reminds me of those old-fashioned sweeping romance…
I chose His Reluctant Mistress by Joanna Maitland for reviewing because of its setting. Vienna is an entirely magical place at all times, but I imagine the splendor and grandiosity and all-around political intrigues during the Congress in 1814 must have rendered it even more glamorous. I collect novels set at this period, and I…
Usually I like Julie Anne Long’s books a great deal, so I am rather sad at how disenchanted I am with Since the Surrender. It’s not all bad; it’s just that it doesn’t quite work at various pivotal moments, and as this is from an author with whose work I have been so immensely pleased…
I first read Alinor, the second volume in the Roselynde Chronicles, when I was a student in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. I came across volumes one to three in a used book store, and was in romance heaven. (It took me almost eight years to track down volumes four to six.) When I reread Alinor for reviewing,…
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